What's your character's backstory/lore?

[Bright-Flower]

My current main was actually first written as an antagonist for an RP arc I ran for a previous FC I was in. She was a war orphan in gyr abania taken in by a rogue sharlayan mage that broke off after the Hinterlands colony was abandoned, meant to be a weapon of war against the empire after being augmented by less than ethical magical experiments.

The FC group eventually defeated her, but decided to spare her and give her a second chance, stripping her of the powers that had made her dangerous and unstable. And I liked the character enough that I kept her around and eventually made her my RP main. She's currently trying to live a relatively normal life, having to adjust to her new status quo. Grappling with the guilt over the things she's done, and torn between wanting to start over but also feeling like she can't, that one day her past is going to catch up with her and the new life she's been bulding will come tumbling down around her.

Funny thing was she wasn't originally intended to be a normal 'player character' but just a bad guy for the FC to clash with a few times and then defeat. But I ended up really liking the character. It helped some I think that a lot of her instability came from circumstances she was forced into, with the real villain of the arc arguably being her adopted mother that did said experiments on her in the first place. So while she wasn't totally innocent, the party felt like she deserved a second chance and I ran with it. Not a character concept I would have made if I was making a new PC from scratch, but it happened to work out well here.